Better Available Light Digital Photography. How to Make the Most of Your Night and Low-Light Shots

Better Available Light Digital Photography
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Contents
Introduction
	The “Gasp Factor”
	This one’s for you
	It’s all about the photographs
	What’s new
Chapter 1: What is available light?
	The Golden Hour
	Zap!
	Weather tips from Barry
	Light is light
	What is EXIF and what is it good for?
	Artificial light
	Painting with light
	Artificial natural light
	The Philadelphia Story
	Out of the past: film noir
	Moulin Rouge!
	Flash in the pan
Chapter 2: Basic exposure
	The age of Aquarius
	Light and color
	Meet the histogram
	The perfect exposure
	Really available light
	Creating high dynamic range images
	HDR in Photoshop
	Other HDR software
	HDR files from scanned film
	What does it all mean?
Chapter 3: Digital noise: What it is and how to deal with it
	Noise comes from many sources
	Chip size vs. noise
	Shutter speed vs. ISO speed
	Do a noise test
	Built-in noise suppression
	Noise-reduction software
	Got noise?
	Picture code
	Keepin’ it neat
	Visual infinity
	Applied Science Fiction
	The Imaging Factory
	Stoic STOIK
	Noise in motion
	Taking action against noise
	Noise in print
	Our take on noise
Chapter 4: White balance techniques
	Light is light?
	Real-world color balance
	AWB: color-temperature range of approximately 4000–8000 K
	Daylight: approximately 5200 K
	Shade: approximately 8000 K
	Cloudy: approximately 6000 K
	Fluorescent light
	Tungsten light: approximately 3200 K
	Flash: approximately 5400 K
	Manual
	Facing lighting challenges indoors
	On location
	Black and white?
	In-camera monochrome color effects
	No more film storage
Chapter 5: Fast lenses
	Zoom vs. prime lenses
	Case study: Canon’s 85 mm f/1.2 L lens
	One more time, boys
	Image-stabilization lenses
	Case study: fun in Acapulco
	In-body stabilization
	Does it matter?
	What about depth of field?
Chapter 6: Tripods and other camera supports
	Standing on three legs
	It’s made of what?
	Carbon-fiber choices
	Legs and feet
	Heads and columns
	The tripod bottom line
	Monopods
	Panorama heads
	Alternate supports
Chapter 7: Available light photography at weddings
	The new wedding photography
	New technology = new opportunities
	Wedding-day coverage
	Off to the reception
Chapter 8: RAW-image-file capture
	Paper or plastic?
	What’s behind door no. 1
	Making the decision
	Pros and cons
	Digital film?
	RAW software
	Adobe Camera Raw
	Workflow: pictures, you’ve got pictures
	Sort ’em out
	Did somebody say distribution?
	Embed copyright with your files
Glossary
Index